Genevieve stooped obediently over the quiet clay and
pressed her lips to the lips yet warm. The door
opened and she passed into another room. There
stood Mrs. Silverstein, with angry eyes that snapped
vindictively at sight of her boy’s clothes.

Silverstein looked beseechingly at his spouse, but
she burst forth savagely:—­

“Vot did I tell you, eh? Vot did I tell
you? You vood haf a bruiser for your steady!
An’ now your name vill be in all der papers!
At a prize fight—­vit boy’s clothes
on! You liddle strumpet! You hussy!
You—­”

But a flood of tears welled into her eyes and voice,
and with her fat arms outstretched, ungainly, ludicrous,
holy with motherhood, she tottered over to the quiet
girl and folded her to her breast. She muttered
gasping, inarticulate love-words, rocking slowly to
and fro the while, and patting Genevieve’s shoulder
with her ponderous hand.

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